[78304] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Multihoming for the small ISP ( search engine) ala 2005
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Mon Feb 28 22:16:08 2005
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:15:13 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Geoff White <geoffw@cybertribe.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4223C980.1040500@cybertribe.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Geoff White wrote:
> 2) What is the "preferred or correct" way for a relatively small outfit
> (a small search engine) to implement Multihoming? Especially when most
> of the machines are a VLS cluster so we are not talking about a large
> address space here. It seems the outfit is having difficulty
> getting blocks that they can even run BGP with, (I know I'm missing a
> lot here)
> They can't even fill a /24, let alone anything greater :)
Doesn't matter. Assuming we're talking about ARIN-region, if they're
multihomed, one of their providers can assign them a /24 (even if they'll
only use 2 IPs) so that they can announce that /24 to their other
providers and have a chance of not being route filtered. ARIN rules
specifically permit this, and it won't be held against the provider when
they apply for more space.
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